Palermo-Genoa, Ryanair “ghost” flight: odyssey for passengers – Primocanale.it
Odyssey for the passengers of the Ryanair Palermo-Genoa flight, scheduled at 20.10 but departing only almost four and a half hours later, when midnight had passed by 32 minutes, and arriving late at night, at twenty to two. A journey that has turned into a nightmare, in the absence of certain communications and immediate feedback, with users left to themselves, unable even to refresh themselves due to the closure of all the bars and restaurants of the “Falcone-Borsellino” airport in Punta Raisi.
The troubles started early. After boarding, after 20 ‘the passengers were more: at the top the captain explained that there was a technical problem and that it would be necessary to replace the aircraft.
The departure was postponed to 20.30, which became 21.00 and then 21.30, and so on. So the indication of the departure gate, which was the 10th, also disappeared. “We are stuck in Palermo and we have no news from anyone” the passengers report. Meanwhile, the gate has been moved to 12, but no indication of departure time.
Even all the bars have closed, no one informs passengers, amid constant postponements of schedules, while among passengers ready to board and family members waiting in Genoa the tam tam reports that the flight was probably canceled, because the aircraft involved had to arrive in Genoa at 9.45 pm. and leave for Palermo. In fact, in the end the corresponding flight was canceled and the passengers who are at the “Colombo” headed to Palermo have resigned themselves to the idea of leaving the next morning.
At the Genoa airport, around 10 pm, it appeared instead that the arrival was scheduled for 11.35 pm. But at the foot of the mountain, in the airport located in the municipal area of Cinisi, passengers see Longa indicate on the electronic boards the departure time of 11.30 pm, with access to gate 10, while information is received by people waiting in Genoa to the office going in the direction of the definitive cancellation of the flight. At 11.20 pm on the boards of the Genoa airport a generic “delay” is indicated.
So the situation seems to be unblocked, with four hours late, the boarding, the departure when already April 22 had become 23, the arrival at about one and thirty-five, as a song by Capossela. For a story that recalls at least two others, of songs by Capossela: “Contrada Chiavicone” and “Decervellamento”.
The plane touched the Sestri Ponente runway at 1.42. The odyssey ended, not the ill will for the disservice suffered.